State Quotes
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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
John Stuart Mill
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Get people to higher ground and have the feds and the state airlift supplies to them -- that was the plan, man
Ray Nagin
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Art is contemplation of the world in a state of grace and imaginatively reflecting that subjective understanding.
Hermann Hesse
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Some princes, so as to hold securely the state, have disarmed their subjects, others have kept their subject towns distracted by factions...Our forefathers, and those who were reckoned wise, were accustomed to say that it was necessary to hold Pistoia [an Italian city] by factions and Pisa by fortress, and with this idea they fostered quarrels in some of their tributary towns so as to keep possession of them the more easily.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
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I never see songs as permanent. I'm always in a state of revising everything.
Ariel Pink
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For after all, a poster does more than simply supply information on the goods it advertises; it also reveals a society’s state of mind
Armin Hofmann
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Success is a state of mind. If you want success, start thinking of yourself as a success.
Joyce Brothers
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If you live in Birmingham, then being awake is not necessarily a desirable state.
TONY Wilson Musician Hot Chocolate
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Language is in the way. Music's in the way. Songs are in the way. Stuff's in the way. That's just our state here. And to acknowledge that we're broken and to even ... create tradition that helps us embrace that, and to understand that, I think is a very healthy, good thing.
David Wallace Crowder
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It is rare and very inspiring that a head of state would make such an investment of time to write a book like this. It is a fine gift to the judokas of the world as well as to those of Russia...Vladimir Putin Sensei and his co-writers have established themselves as gifted writers and contributors to the judo world.
Keiko Fukuda
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The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him.
Confucius
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Brute force is not our salvation, especially as directed by State central planning and done with little regard for the innocents.
Anthony Gregory
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You mean in the state?
Abe Lemons
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Since the state was dismantled in Iraq, institutions have disappeared and people have withdrawn into their clans and tribes.
Ayad Allawi
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Some of the people in my caucus, some of the people in the state party in Minnesota have basically said, "We don't want to deal with these guys because they're too conservative," or "We don't agree with them on social issues."
Collin Peterson
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Today the predatory state, or the predatory group of states, with power of total destruction, is no more to be tolerated than the predatory individual.
Lester B. Pearson
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The true wealth of a state consists in the number of its inhabitants, in their toil and industry.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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The national State divides its inhabitants into three classes: State citizens, State subjects, and foreigners. It must be held in greater honour to be a citizen of this Reich even if only a crossing-sweeper, than to be a king in a foreign State.
Adolf Hitler
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Admittedly communism has not been achieved in Russia. State socialism has been built.
Joseph Stalin
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I take it that our state, having been founded and built up on the right lines, is good in the complete sense of the word.
Plato
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Experience has shown that it is difficult, if not impossible, for a populous state to be run by good laws.
Aristotle
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There is no such thing as a life of passion any more than a continuous earthquake, or an eternal fever. Besides, who would ever shave themselves in such a state?
Lord Byron
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We must remember that North Carolina is more than a collection of regions and people. We are one state, one people, one family, bound by a common concern for each other.
Michael F. Easley
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The first essential responsibility of the state is control of the market-place: there must be some official charged with the duty of seeing that honest dealing and good order prevail. For one of the well-nigh essential activities of all states is the buying and selling of goods to meet their mutual basic needs; this is the quickest way to self-sufficiency, which seems to be what moves men to combine under a single constitution.
Aristotle